http://chronicle.com/section/The-Chronicle-Review/41/ Opinion & Ideas :: The Chronicle Review Sat, 25 May 2013 12:38:22 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139259/ http://chronicle.com/article/The-Talented-Mrs-Shipley/139259/ A State Department bureaucrat of the early 20th century drew up a forerunner of the No Fly List, raising the same constitutional issues then as we face now.

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139251/ http://chronicle.com/article/Scholars-in-Bondage/139251/ Academics writing about kink lick the boots of their cultural-studies idols and shackle themselves in jargon.

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139255/ http://chronicle.com/article/Austerity-Has-Been-Tested-and/139255/ Public-health experts have joined economists and historians in critiquing rigid belt-tightening regimes.

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139249/ http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Do-Historians-Insist-on/139249/ Human relations have been characterized by contact and interconnection more than by conflict and antagonism.

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139253/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Course-in-Online-Civility/139253/ His students bemoan social-media meanness, but when their online conversations are part of their grade, the courtesy is contagious.

]]> Mon, 20 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139115/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Biblical-Blame-Game/139115/ Richard Wolin responds to a letter about his article on the Egyptologist Jan Assmann.

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139125/ http://chronicle.com/article/Hard-Hats-Hippiesthe/139125/ Class divides in protest movements have never been as simple as they seemed.

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139131/ http://chronicle.com/article/From-Nonlife-to-Life/139131/ Making the leap in a test tube would reveal part of the basic nature of the universe.

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139129/ http://chronicle.com/article/Where-Thomas-Nagel-Went-Wrong/139129/ The philosopher's critique of evolution wasn't shocking. So why have his colleagues raked him over the coals?

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139117/ http://chronicle.com/article/A-Letter-to-My-Grandfather/139117/ The late Jacques Barzun was known to the world as a great historian. To his grandson, he was also a guide on grooming, career, and "the enigma of love."

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139123/ http://chronicle.com/article/My-Academic-Metamorphosis/139123/ Four years of anguish intense enough to induce a fugue state was enough for this would-be professor.

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/139119/ http://chronicle.com/article/Jazz-Journeys-of-MindSoul/139119/ In imaginative new works, Jaimeo Brown and Chuck Owen explore spiritual and natural revelations through hybrid musical forms.

]]> Mon, 13 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138913/ http://chronicle.com/article/Why-We-Need-Enemies/138913/ More often than we care to admit, we feel the absence of foes as strongly as we do their presence.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 01:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138919/ http://chronicle.com/article/Selected-Works-on-Resilience/138919/ Recent seminal works in the field.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138927/ http://chronicle.com/article/After-Catastrophe/138927/ Scholars who perceive the world as interconnected systems know that there are surely more disasters to come.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138929/ http://chronicle.com/article/Natures-Limits/138929/ Ecologists looking for the best way to manage natural resources try to encourage systems that can absorb and accommodate unexpected future events.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138923/ http://chronicle.com/article/Bouncing-Back-May-Be-Tough/138923/ Just as ecosystems can absorb serious shock and change into different but stable versions of themselves, so can people, researchers say.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138917/ http://chronicle.com/article/That-Elastic-Term/138917/ C.S. Holling first defined the concept of "resilience" in 1973 as a system's ability to rebound. It has found its way into many disciplines, but does it lack precision?

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138925/ http://chronicle.com/article/Our-Handwriting-Ourselves/138925/ Philip Hensher's new book goes beyond nostalgia to what may really be lost when we leave cursive behind.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138921/ http://chronicle.com/article/Out-of-Debt-on-the-Road/138921/ One graduate's effort to pay off his loans led to a very different kind of education.

]]> Mon, 06 May 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138787/ http://chronicle.com/article/MOOCsthe-Material-World/138787/ What brick-and-mortar classrooms still provide is that moment when people confront a problem hands-on in the same local space.

]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138583/ http://chronicle.com/article/Reshaping-Students-in-Our-Own/138583/ When an English professor takes a sculpting class, he wonders how heavy-handed teaching should be.

]]> Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138581/ http://chronicle.com/article/Do-We-Dare-Write-for-Readers-/138581/ Too often scholars write books that are meant to be coolly admired by a small cadre. Aim higher.

]]> Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138577/ http://chronicle.com/article/Imagining-the-World/138577/ The beautiful and bizarre variety of life on earth boggles the mind.

]]> Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138633/ http://chronicle.com/article/Up-in-Arms/138633/ The Minutemen, a self-appointed border militia trying to protect the United States from immigrants, are a tangle of contradictions, a sociologist finds.

]]> Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:01:00 EDT http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/138579/ http://chronicle.com/article/shameonyou/138579/ Academe's underculture of ridicule thrives on the Web. But while insult masquerades as a conversation starter, it's just the opposite.

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